The Baron Phillips of Sudbury, OBE, Liberal party politician, life peer, died 9 April, 2023. He was 84.
Andrew Wyndham Phillips was born 15 March, 1939, son of Alan Clifford Phillips, and his wife the former Dorothy Alice Wyndham.
Andrew Phillips was originally a member of the Labour Party, and contested the 1970 General Election for Labour in Harwich. But he was expelled from the party in 1973 for publishing a letter in The Times deploring the party's policy of nationalising the top 100 companies and indemnifying trade unionists with criminal convictions, and joined the Liberals in the early 1970s. He unsuccessfully stood as a Liberal candidate in Saffron Walden in both a 1977 by-election and the 1979 General Election. He was also unsuccessful as the Liberal candidate in Gainsborough and Horncastle at the 1983 general election. He was the unsuccessful Liberal candidate for Essex North East constituency for the first European Parliament elections in 1979.
He was appointed OBE in 1996.
He was raised to the peerage for life in 1998, as Baron Phillips of Sudbury, of Sudbury in the County of Suffolk. He sat in the House of Lords as a Lib Dem.
He married in 1968, Penelope Ann Bennett, by whom he had one son and two daughters.
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